"Colors are the smiles of nature."
-Leigh Hunt
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"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
-Leigh Hunt
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"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
-Leigh Hunt
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"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating."
-Leigh Hunt
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"The groundwork of all happiness is health."
-Leigh Hunt
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"The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing."
-Leigh Hunt
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"Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers."
-Carlos Fuentes
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"If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society."
-Strom Thurmond
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"For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats."
-Harry Browne
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"There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply a succession of mistakes, intolerances and violations."
-Claude Vorilhon
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"This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime, who degrades Islam? Who imposes stoning, forced marriage of underage girls and flogging for not wearing the veil? Do such practices represent Iran's ancient history and culture, its ethnic and religious diversity? Its centuries of sensual and subversive poetry?"
-Azar Nafisi
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"What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history."
-Barney Frank
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